Improvement in woven wooden fencings



J. J. HALL.

. WOVEN WOODEN FENCING.

No.182,661. 7 Patented Sept. 25, 1876.

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JAMES J. HALLpO F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOVEN WOODEN FENCINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,66 1, datedSeptember 26, 1876 application filed August 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J. HALL, of Brooklyn,-in the county of Kings,and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fences; and do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists of connecting a series of woodenbars by wires for forming a fence, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to manufacture and use the same, I will now proceed to morefully describe it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents aplan or side elevation of the bars as connected. Fig. 2 represents a topor end view of the same.

A A represent a series of round wooden bars. These bars are rigidlyconnected at top and bottom, and slightly separated, (and mayadditionally be connected at the center,) by metallic wires a a. Thesewires are each first bent around one side of one bar, and around theopposite side of the adjacent bar, as shown in the drawing, and thuscontinued throughout the series of bars to be connected. Each wire isthen brought back, and bent around the bars in a back and forth reversemanner, so that the two ends of each wire will come together when theends are twisted one upon the other.

This form of bending the wire allows each bar to be inclosed in aloop,and firmly bound at the starting-point by twisting the ends together.

I preferably use two wires thus bent at the top of the bars, and twowires at the bottom of the same, and in the center of the same threesuch bent wires may be employed, as shown. This invention, as described,should be woven in a suitable loom.

Having thus fully described my invention,

ing-point, and are then twisted together, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this12th day of July, 1876.

JAMES J. HALL. Witnesses:

JOHN H. MILLER, ALBERT G. MCDONALD.

